Julie:

Run your watermarks alongside the rows so that you don't run water in the row itself, watering every other row, as you see in the row crops around the area. Depending how loose your ground is, when you irrigate the water will sub out on the surface to just beyond the plants in anywhere from an hour to 10 or 12 hours. Then turn the water off. This will usually cover their watering needs for a week, so water about every 7 days. The surface of the soil will dry down within a day or so, but the root zone will hold plenty of water to keep the plants happy for a week.

You can raise the planting rows a little like you see in the sugar beets and beans, which will allow them to absorb water, the drain down quickly to get oxygen back into the soil for the roots. All the garden vegetables will do fine. Probably the most sensitive will be the melons which don't like wet feet for long.

I have fewer disease problems by irrigating rather than running a sprinkler because you keep the foliage dry.